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Jamie Dupree’s Washington Insider

Path still open for Trump nomination

Despite a stinging loss in Wisconsin to Ted Cruz, Donald Trump certainly still has a path open to getting a majority of delegates to the Republican National Convention, but it may have to involve both primary wins and behind-the-scenes delegate deal-making as well.

So Trump lost, he's still in the drivers seat. He has won most of the states and has most of the delegates. Needs to win 60% of remaining.

The biggest problem for Trump is that only five of those states are true Winner-Take-All – Delaware, Nebraska, New Jersey, South Dakota and Montana.

Others are a Winner-Take-Most scenario like in Wisconsin, where you win a statewide pot of delegates then can sweep delegates in individual Congressional districts – those states are Maryland, Indiana and California.

California is a state where Trump needs to do well – especially since 172 delegates are at stake. But a new poll from there shows a much more divided delegate picture.

There are two long months before CA primary, but if Cruz gets same #s as today's Field Poll, it's Hello, Cleveland. https://t.co/yWkcl6GuTD